Ellen Dunham-Jones Biography

Ellen Dunham-Jones is Coordinator of the MS in Urban Design. She teaches “Theories of Urban Design” “Retrofitting Suburbia” and urban design studios.
A leading authority on suburban redevelopment she and June Williamson wrote Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. The book documents successful retrofits of vacant big box stores dead malls aging office parks etc. into more sustainable places. The book received the PROSE award from the American Association of Publishers as best architecture/urban planning book of 2009 was featured in Time Magazine’s March 23 2009 cover story “10 ideas changing the world right now” and is the subject of her 2010 TED talk and 2012 TED-NPR Radio Hour interview. She appeared in the 2011 documentary Urbanized the 2012 PBS series “Designing Healthy Communities” and was recently interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition in anticipation of the National Bike Summit and for AIA Atlanta’s Shoptalk series. She continues to build her database of suburban retrofits lecture widely and is working on a follow-up book on successful strategies for retrofitting suburbs to meet 21st century challenges.
Ellen’s published over 60 additional papers linking contemporary architectural theory and practice. “Irrational Exuberance: Rem Koolhaas in the Nineties” in the 2013 book was named one of the ten most popular essays of 2013 by The Design Observer Group.

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